Abstract
Smart mobile devices have significantly increased the popularity of Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) at work, as they benefit people’s daily lives. However, BYOD comes with several challenging issues such as limited hardware capacity, frequent upgrades of applications, and security and privacy concerns. Virtual Mobile Infrastructure (VMI), a general framework that provides more reliable and secure solution for BYOD, has therefore been proposed. The key of VMI is to host a mobile Operating System (OS) on a remote cloud data center, and run mobile applications on it. However, VMI faces performance challenge as it needs to display the entire virtualized desktop on a mobile device while the real content of the desktop is on a remote server. To address the performance challenge, we design and implement a VMI named vMobiDesk on top of Android with optimized network transfer mechanisms and display virtualization. In particular, vMobiDesk focuses on virtualizing the display of Android desktops, redirecting users’ input events, providing audio support and remote camera. The experimental results show that vMobiDesk has low virtualization overhead, as well as enables mobile users to obtain good experiences with BYOD applications.
Highlights
IntroductionI N recent years, smart mobile devices (e.g., smart phones and tablets) have been widely used by people all over the world
I N recent years, smart mobile devices have been widely used by people all over the world
OVERVIEW OF Virtual Mobile Infrastructure (VMI) VMI is a framework that provides secure and reliable solution for mobile users to operate on virtual desktops when there is a need
Summary
I N recent years, smart mobile devices (e.g., smart phones and tablets) have been widely used by people all over the world. They have already been an indispensable part of our daily lives. It is extremely common that we use mobile devices to handle documents and emails through mobile applications (apps) at work. In May 2017, Google announced that Android had 2 billion monthly active users [1] [2]. As of February 2017, the Google Play store has over 2.7 million Android apps published [3]. Statistics show that as of May 2016, those apps have been downloaded for more than 65 billion times [4]
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